Bitter Taste Quotes:

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.

- Richard Pryor

topic: Want, Too Much, Bitterness, Bitter Taste

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Happiness, Eye, Men, What Is Happiness, Envy And Success

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

- Chanakya

topic: Friendship, Education, Self, Truth Of Life, Bitter Taste

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

- William Cowper

topic: Sweet, Flower, May, God Works In Mysterious Ways, Bitter Taste

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

- Josephine Winslow Johnson

source: Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.37, Feminist Press at CUNY

topic: Sweat, Cost, Taste, Bitter Taste

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

- Lucretius

source: Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

topic: Rain, Flower, Heart, Bitter Taste

Im not a fan of grilling meat, since that tends to dry it out, and I find grill marks leave a bitter taste. A good steak house will offer different options for preparation, and I would ask them to broil or pan-roast the steak and finish it with butter. It ends up a dark chocolate color and stays very juicy.

- Tom Colicchio

topic: Dark, Color, House, Grilling, Dark Chocolate

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

- William Cowper

topic: Judging, Grace, Frowning, Bitter Taste

What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding; yet for the poor we delight in stripping it still barer, and are not ashamed to shew even visible displeasure, if ever the bitter taste is taken from their mouths."

- Hester Lynch Piozzi

source: "Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson".

topic: Taken, Acceptance, Giving, Displeasure, Sweeteners

Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.270, Penguin UK

topic: Sweet, Pain, Hate, Bitter Taste, No Pain No Gain

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek.

- Angela Elwell Hunt

topic: Sweet, Revenge, Knights, Turn The Other Cheek, Revenge Is Sweet

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

- Max Lerner

topic: Democracy, Taste, Bitter, Bitter Taste